Subject: Re: I don't understand Lisp
From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no>
Date: 1998/09/22
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3115456170053834@naggum.no>
* Simon Leinen <simon@limmat.switch.ch>
| "Explicit hatred for Lisp" is way over the top - Larry probably
| wouldn't deny that Perl owes quite a bit to Lisp.
Larry Wall has been explicit in his hatred for Lisp, and has denied every
similarity between Perl and any Lisp. I have tried to communicate with
him, but because of my involvement with Lisp and Emacs and the FSF, got
an amazingly stupid flame back, not addressing anything of what I asked
him, and this was _before_ I looked closely enough at Perl to think it's
the worst disgrace of a language that has plagued this planet, not even
beaten by C++. he continued to attack Lisp whenever he had a chance, but
in all fairness, I haven't seen anything from him in a long time, so he
might have improved for all I care.
#:Erik
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